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blaw

American  
[blaw] / blɔ /

verb (used with or without object)

Scot. and North England.
  1. blow.


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It's up on your ain middens, My cocks, sae croose to craw, And gar play your Scottish fiddles, And your Scottish bag-pipes blaw.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Wha kens what turn of the wind of circumstance may blaw ye to Quebec?

From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens

I pat it ablow the clock for fear the wun's o' heeven micht blaw it awa' like chaff, an' you couldna do wantin' it!'

From International Short Stories English by Various

An’ poor awd men, ’at scarce can blaw, Wi’ beards an’ whiskers white as snaw; Sad sample ov oor fallen race, All rollin up to t’ Steeple Chase.

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo

Martinmas wind, when wilt thou blaw And shake the green leaves off the tree?

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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